Overview[1]
"Quickly rain explosives on your enemies"; "Switch between impact grenades and bouncy grenades"
The is a weapon that rapidly shoots explosive arching projectiles. It can be used as a movement tool, launching the player forward if they hit a wall at the right angle.
Stats
- Ammo
- 6/24
- Cooldown
- 0.60s
- Cost
- 425 Heavy Duty Bundle
- Critical Damage
- 80
- Damage
- 40
- Equip Cooldown
- 1.00s
- Explosion Radius
- 14studs
- Move Speed
- -10%
- Reload
- 1.80s
- Weapon Title
- Grenade Launcher
Ability
The has an ability to throw Bouncy Grenades by pressing the aiming button.
Trivia
The is currently the only Heavy Duty weapon to not have a skin. Its model is based off of a M32a1 Milkor MGL. The Swashbuckler skin is based off Demoman's Loose Cannon primary weapon from Team Fortress 2.
History
Added Grenade Launcher 💪 Damage increased from 45 → 49 📝 "We are raising the skill ceiling of the Grenade Launcher & making it less frustrating to go against" 💪 Direct hit damage increased from 49 → 100 🔻 Splash damage reduced from 49 → 35 💪 Projectile hitbox increased from 0.1studs → 0.5studs 📝 "Bringing down the direct damage prevents certain weapon combos from dominating. We also want the projectile hitbox to feel similar to the RPG" 🔻 Direct hit damage decreased from 100 → 80 💪 Projectile hitbox increased from 0.5studs → 1stud 📝 "We want the Grenade Launcher to compete with the RPG and to make juggling easier" 💪 Projectile speed increased from 75studs/s → 90studs/s 📝 "The Grenade Launcher's splash damage has been underwhelming" 💪 Splash damage increased from 35 → 40 💪 Projectiles are no longer affected by auto-latency-redirection 📝 "The Grenade Launcher has found a hard time being used for anything other than movement" 💪 Splash damage increased from 40 → 50 💪 Max ammo reserve increased from 18 → 24 📝 "The Grenade Launcher ended fights too quickly" 🔻 Damage decreased from 50 → 40 💪 You can now right click to switch between impact grenades & bouncy grenades instead of being able to aim 📝 "Bouncy grenades were too awkward to use" 💪 You can now fire bouncy grenades without needing to switch grenade types 📝 “The Grenade Launcher struggled to hit opponents on open maps with its small explosion radius” 💪 Explosion radius increased from 12studs →14studs
